Shirt-waist.



PATENTED JUNE 16, 1903.

J. M. IDE.

SHIRT WAIST.

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U ITED STATES Patented June 16, 1903. I

PATENT @FrIc JAMES M. IDE, OF TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE P. IDE dz (30., OF TROY, NEW YORK, A FIRM.

SHIRT-WAIST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 731,369, dated June 16, 1903. Application filed December 14,1900. Serial No. 39,840. (No modelfl To (Z5 whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. IDE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Troy, county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improve-- ments in Shirt-Waists, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to such improvements; and it consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter de-.

scribed and subsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanyelevation of a shirt-waist embodying my invention, a portion of the front of the garment being broken away to better illustrate the invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same, taken on the broken line 2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a similar View of a modified form of construction for reinforcing the garment at the waist-line.

My invention relates to that class of outer garments known as shirt-waists, particularly those adapted for mens Wear, wherein it is desirable to maintain the lower end of the waist-body and the upper end of the trousers in such relative positions that one shall overlap the other without separation at any point.

The object of my invention is to provide a shirt-waist having means for detachably securing thereto suspenders .such as are commonly used with trousers and separate and independent means fordetachably securing thereto trousers provided with the ordinary Suspender-buttons.

In carrying out my invention I provide the shirt-waist at or nearits Waist-line-With means for detachably connecting thereto either on 5 the inner side or outer side the trousers and separate means for detachably connecting thereto ordinary suspenders.

Referring to the drawings, l represents the body of the shirt-waist, having the usual neckopening 2 and sleeves 3.

The garment is preferably reinforced at or near its waist-line, as by stitching thereto a reinforcing-strip 4 a short distance above its lowerend 5, as shown inFigs. 1 and 2.

The garment is provided at or near its waist-line along said reinforced portion with a series of buttonholes 6, severally adapted to be detachably connected with the usual buttons 7 on the upper end of the trousers,

as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2, wherein the upper end of the trousers 8 is indicated by dotted lines. The garment is also provided with a series of tabs 9, severally secured at one end to, the body of the garment near its waist-line, preferably to said reinforced portion, and severally provided with buttons 10 or other means for detachably connecting the free ends of said tabs with the ends 11 of the suspenders 12, adapted to pass over the shoulders of the wearer. The shoul- 7 o der portions of the suspenders may pass loosely through supporting-loops 13. (Indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1.) The length of the suspenders is so limited as to leave the waist with a full body above the Waist-line when the opposite ends of the suspenders are connected at front and back with the respective tabs 9.

It'may be seen from an inspection of Fi 2 that when the several parts are connected as above described the upper end. of the trousers will be connected with the shirtwaist at its waist-line in such a manner that the upper edge of the trousers is wholly concealed by the lower end of the waist, while at the same time the weight of the trousers is supported by the suspenders through the intervening tabs and reinforced portion of the waist-body, leaving the waist-body above the Waist-line free and unconfined. I am go thus able to give any desireddegree of fullness to the body of the garment without interfering with the proper support of the trousers.

It will be seen that it is not necessary to de- 5 tach the Suspender-ends to remove the waist from the trousers, the separation being accomplished merely by unbuttoning the buttonholed portion of the waist from the trousers-buttons, the suspenders being left con- 10o loose and unconfined in use.

nected with the respective tabs and being removed from and applied to the person of the wearer while connected with the waist.

' ever, the Waist can be reinforced by folding the lower end of the body upon itself, as shown at 14 in Fig. 3, the buttonholes 6 being formed in such folded portion.

The tabs 9 are preferably secured at their lower ends to the body of the garment by stitching, their upper ends being free, thus facilitating the connection and disconnection of the suspender-ends therewith.

I am thus able to provide a complete shirtwaist to which any of the usual forms of trousers-suspenders may be detachably applied as easily as they are applied to trousers for the purpose of supporting the same in difieringadjusted positions and to which trousers having the usual Suspender-buttons either on the inner or outer sidev ot' the waistband maybe secured independently of the suspenders. When the buttons are on the outer side of the trousers, the waist overlaps the trousers, and when the buttons are on the inner side the waist is tucked in and the trousers overlap the waist.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A shirt-waist having at or near its waistline separate means for detachably connecting thereto both the trousers and the suspenders, substantially as described.

2. A shirt-waist having at or near its waistline a series of buttonholes adapted to connect respectively with the trousers-buttons, and a series of tabs severally secured at one end to the body of the garment adjacent to the respective buttonholes, and provided with means for detachably connecting therewith the opposite ends of suspenders adapted to pass over the shoulders of the wearer, substantially as described.

3. A shirt-waist having at or near its waistline a series of buttonholes adapted to register with trousers-buttons, and a similar series of suspender-fastenings for supporting the waist-line of the Waist independently of such buttonholes substantially as described.

4. A shirt-waist having at or near its waistline a series of buttonholes adapted to register with trousers-buttons, a reinforcing-strip for each buttonhole, through which the buttonhole is made, projected above the buttonhole and provided onthe projection with a suspender-fastening, substantially as described.

5 A shirt-waist having buttonholes for detachably connecting thereto the buttons of the waistband of trousers, and having-buttons for detachably connecting thereto the buttonholes of the opposite ends of trouserssuspenders.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 8th day of December, 1900.

' JAMES M. IDE. Witnesses:

JESSE A. IDE, WM. L. GILLESPIE. 

